Bhattacharya said the walk was to protest the attacks on democracy by the state government.

Johra, has been in jail since April 2009 even though her jail term was over June 2010.

The protest march and candle rally from the Press Club was participated by lawyers.

AAP procession is planned from College Square to Metro Channel.

The girl, a Class VIII student, stopped attending school after she got engaged.

Mamata is said to have called Shahi Imam of Tipu Sultan Masjid and sought support.

Ali was produced at the Chief Metropolitan Court at Bankshall court this morning.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has offered a Lok Sabha ticket to former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly to contest next year's general elections.

The heritage property was restored at a cost of more than Rs 10 crore to its original glory in 2010.

While the BJP has already offered him a seat from the state, West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee chief Pradip Bhattacharya Sunday visited his house at Behala

Named Chetna Yatra, the activists say the rally is a step towards creating public awareness about AAP in West Bengal.

K D Singh and V K Singh were addressing a state level convention organised by members of the Punjabi community in Rohtak.

The warden of Presidency Correctional Home has been sent a showcause notice after he was frisked and found to be allegedly carrying Rs 10,000 for someone inside the prison Saturday.

While the first home will accommodate 100 elderly sex workers , the second one, for their daughters, will house 50 girls.

Mukherjee had gone to Washington to seek funds from the World Bank to implement projects like supply of arsenic-free water to the rural areas.

Apart from several other issues, the decision of the ruling party to form a war crimes tribunal in 2009 is one of the reasons behind the existing turmoil.

Mamata Banerjee said the state should be given at least a year''s moratorium on repayment of interests on central loans.

On Dec 8, a group of alleged TMC goons barged into the FB office at Cinematolla and beat several leaders.

Lawyers associated with several political parties but the TMC took part in the rally.

The state has already paid Rs 50 crore to the depositors, which according to the PIL, is not acceptable under law.

Coming to the defence of Justice A K Ganguly again, former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee Thursday said it would be a 'travesty of justice'' if SC was requested by the Centre to probe into the allegations against him afresh.

Inaugurating the session on behalf of the CM, state finance minister Amit Mitra pointed out the "massive increase" in the budget allocation for minorities since Mamata came to office in 2011.

The West Bengal Human Rights Commission is waiting for a reply from the West Bengal State Law Clerks'' Council on its action on a letter threatening to frame its Chairman Justice Ashok Kumar Ganguly.

Left front and the Congress are peeved at the state government for not placing the CAG report in the Assembly for the last two years.

Members of the West Bengal Mahila Congress Committee, along with other senior Congress leaders, took out a procession on Saturday protesting violence against women in the state.

The popularity of the Facebook page of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee''s has crossed five lakh 'likes'' but Narendra Modi, Arvind Kejriwal and Vasundhara Raje were ahead of her.

The post fell vacant when Banerjee retired in 2009.

The girl was in stable condition and that the state will bear all her medical expenses.

The noted singer who regularly featured in CM''s entourage recently was a witness to Mamata''s ire.

This is not the first time that the West Bengal government has raised the issue of Ganguly''s visit to Pakistan.

L and LR department confirmed not receiving any requisition for land; Partha-headed IT dept''s performance too not at par

The party has called a Lalbazaar Chalo march on Tuesday.

According to the police, the incident took place late on Sunday.

Even the Trinamool leaders claimed to be in dark about the impending reshuffle.

Modi will divide the country if he comes to power: Buddha.

3 TMC workers have been arrested in connection with attack

A Bharat Sevasharam monk was arrested and remanded in police custody for allegedly abusing minor boys in the ashram premises at Sahapur.

Bandopadhyay also questioned the pressure being put on Ganguly to step down as the WBHRC chairman.

10 depts yet to submit amount of land they have

As Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) chief Bimal Gurung prepares to take oath as GTA chief executive at Raj Bhawan Thursday, the state government is keeping its promise of releasing jailed outfit members.

There was no official announcement whether portfolios of existing ministers would be changed, or anyone would be dropped.

Cabinet reshuffle : Replaces senior leader with Amit Mitra; inducts 2 new faces

Bodies of six persons of a family a couple and their four daughters aged 1, 5, 8 and 10 were recovered from a guesthouse room at Tarapith in Birbhum on Thursday.

A majority of people will have to pay up to get a glimpse of BJP''s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi during a public rally at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on February 5.

The seven-feet long sculpture, weighing several tonnes, allegedly fell and broke into two halves during shifting.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said the trend of students leaving Kolkata for Bangalore or Hyderabad for higher education will be reversed in a couple of years as the state capital will will became a education hub.

The Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO) Friday denied any involvement in Thursday night''s cycle bomb explosion at Jalpaiguri and blamed the police for creating a "misunderstanding".

The alleged incident happened when the laywer was interning with him.

Altogether16,000 km of village roads would be developed through the launch of one kilometre all-weather roads in all of 3,349 gram panchayats in West Bengal from January 7.

The Kolkata police has admitted that the blanket ban on cycling and other forms of non-motorised transport in the city was initiated without making any study on how the ban would improve traffic.